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LGBT protesters arrested at Boehner office
June 13th, 2013
07:41 PM ET
2 days ago

LGBT protesters arrested at Boehner office

(CNN) - Police arrested members of an LGBT group on Thursday during a protest outside of House Speaker John Boehner's district office on Capitol Hill.

The activists who were handcuffed and taken into custody are affiliated with GetEQUAL action, the same lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organization that disrupted the first lady's DNC event last week.
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Filed under: Gay rights • John Boehner
Boehner meets with Newtown families
June 12th, 2013
05:14 PM ET
7 days ago

Boehner meets with Newtown families

Washington (CNN) – House Speaker John Boehner told CNN his meeting with the family members of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shootings was "very good."

Several relatives of those who died in the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut last December returned to Capitol Hill six months after the tragedy. The massacre left twenty school children and six educators at Sandy Hook elementary school dead. The group sat down with Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor at the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon to discuss their efforts to push for legislation aimed at reducing gun violence.
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Filed under: Connecticut • Eric Cantor • Gun control • John Boehner
Boehner calls Snowden a traitor; Rand Paul 'reserving judgment'
June 11th, 2013
09:50 AM ET
8 days ago

Boehner calls Snowden a traitor; Rand Paul 'reserving judgment'

(CNN) – Republicans on Capitol Hill offered differing assessments Tuesday of the ex-CIA employee who leaked top secret documents detailing the American government's surveillance activities to the Guardian newspaper.

"He's a traitor," House Speaker John Boehner said bluntly on ABC's "Good Morning America," adding he thought Edward Snowden's leaks had put Americans at risk.
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Filed under: John Boehner • NSA • Rand Paul
Boehner, Cantor to meet with Newtown families
June 10th, 2013
07:09 PM ET
8 days ago

Boehner, Cantor to meet with Newtown families

Updated 1:56 p.m. ET, Tuesday, 6/11, to reflect a schedule change for the meeting.

Washington (CNN) – The two top Republicans in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives will meet Wednesday with families who lost loved ones in the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school shooting.

According to an aide to John Boehner, the House speaker and Majority Leader Eric Cantor will sit down with the families, who will be in Washington to mark six months since the massacre that left 26 dead.
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Filed under: Eric Cantor • Gun control • Gun rights • John Boehner
Split House GOP threatens immigration reform, Boehner's future
Sens. Jeff Flake, left, and Marco Rubio, center, didn't find a receptive audience among House conservatives for the Gang of Eight immigration reform plan.
June 10th, 2013
07:18 AM ET
10 days ago

Split House GOP threatens immigration reform, Boehner's future

Washington (CNN) - As the Senate this week casts its first round of votes on immigration reform, a divided Republican conference on the other side of the Capitol may be a roadblock to any immigration measure passing Congress this year.

And that internal split will soon pose a critical test for House Speaker John Boehner.

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Filed under: Immigration • John Boehner
IRS scandal adds fuel to Obamacare fire
May 16th, 2013
07:04 PM ET
34 days ago

IRS scandal adds fuel to Obamacare fire

(CNN) - The House of Representatives passed a measure to repeal Obamacare entirely on Thursday - a move the GOP-led chamber has done twice already.

But the latest scandal involving the IRS, one of the key agencies charged with enforcing the health care law, is adding fuel to the political fire over the controversial new law.
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Filed under: Dean Heller • Healthcare • John Boehner • Kathleen Sebelius • Republican
Boehner: Obama administration displaying 'remarkable arrogance'
May 16th, 2013
12:29 PM ET
34 days ago

Boehner: Obama administration displaying 'remarkable arrogance'

Washington (CNN) - The way President Barack Obama's administration is handling itself amid parallel points of outrage displays a "remarkable arrogance" that could decay public trust of government, House Speaker John Boehner asserted Thursday.

And he predicted that when all the facts emerge on the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service, employees at higher levels than those in the field office where the targeting occurred will be implicated.
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Filed under: IRS • John Boehner
May 15th, 2013
10:30 AM ET
35 days ago

Boehner on IRS Scandal: 'Who is going to jail?'

(CNN) – The admitted targeting of conservative groups applying for tax exempt status is grounds for some Internal Revenue Service employees to lose their jobs, House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday.

"The IRS has admitted to targeting conservatives, even if the White House continues to be stuck on the word 'if,'" Boehner said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. "Now, my question isn't about who's going to resign. My question is who's going to jail over this scandal?"
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Filed under: IRS • John Boehner
Boehner calls for White House to release Benghazi emails
May 9th, 2013
11:55 AM ET
41 days ago

Boehner calls for White House to release Benghazi emails

(CNN) – House Speaker John Boehner called on President Obama to release emails that he says show how the White House wanted to change the Benghazi attack "talking points."

Secretary of State John Kerry, meanwhile, vowed Thursday to "leave no stone unturned" in looking into the matter and answering questions about the attack.
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Filed under: John Boehner • John Kerry • Libya • State Department
Boehner's tepid support for Sanford
May 7th, 2013
02:11 PM ET
43 days ago

Boehner's tepid support for Sanford

Washington (CNN) - After endorsing former Rep Mark Sanford last month in the special congressional election in South Carolina, House Speaker John Boehner appeared to distance himself Tuesday from the controversial former governor, saying "the electorate gets to decide" who their representatives in Congress are.

Sanford gained notoriety in 2009 when while serving as South Carolina's governor he disappeared from public view and his aides said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. He later admitted he was in Argentina visiting his mistress.
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Filed under: John Boehner • Mark Sanford • South Carolina
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